Eric Garcia

I think it could lead to scientific breakthroughs. It could help with finding ways to treat co-occurring conditions like epilepsy. A lot of autistic people die from epileptic seizures. But like treating it as like crisis and treating it as something to be fixed or prevented is corrosive to a lot of families. It's corrosive to a lot of autistic people. It puts the blame back on parents.

And it focuses more on fixing this issue rather than accommodating and giving services to autistic people, when the pie is so scarce. You know, this is the same administration that, you know, is trying to cut Medicaid.

And it focuses more on fixing this issue rather than accommodating and giving services to autistic people, when the pie is so scarce. You know, this is the same administration that, you know, is trying to cut Medicaid.

And it focuses more on fixing this issue rather than accommodating and giving services to autistic people, when the pie is so scarce. You know, this is the same administration that, you know, is trying to cut Medicaid.

Right. So when you're standing and listening to RFK say things like this, to you the message is... Something about me needs to be fixed.

Right. So when you're standing and listening to RFK say things like this, to you the message is... Something about me needs to be fixed.

Right. So when you're standing and listening to RFK say things like this, to you the message is... Something about me needs to be fixed.

Yes. And something about a large amount of people needs to be fixed rather than these are people who are human beings who need services and who need support and who need acceptance in the world.

Yes. And something about a large amount of people needs to be fixed rather than these are people who are human beings who need services and who need support and who need acceptance in the world.

Yes. And something about a large amount of people needs to be fixed rather than these are people who are human beings who need services and who need support and who need acceptance in the world.

I want to talk about how RFK's statements have opened up and exposed certain rifts inside the world of autism. Yes. She writes, when RFK Jr. said in a recent press briefing, the same one we've been talking about, that autistic children will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, many people in the autism community reacted angrily. Probably you did, Eric.

I want to talk about how RFK's statements have opened up and exposed certain rifts inside the world of autism. Yes. She writes, when RFK Jr. said in a recent press briefing, the same one we've been talking about, that autistic children will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, many people in the autism community reacted angrily. Probably you did, Eric.

I want to talk about how RFK's statements have opened up and exposed certain rifts inside the world of autism. Yes. She writes, when RFK Jr. said in a recent press briefing, the same one we've been talking about, that autistic children will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, many people in the autism community reacted angrily. Probably you did, Eric.

And yet, I was transported back to the psychiatrist's office and the bleak prognosis that my child might never speak again. I found myself nodding along as Mr. Kennedy spoke about the grim realities of profound autism. Can you explain what this divide is about between, say, a community that you represent and this parent's community of children who she describes as profoundly autistic?

And yet, I was transported back to the psychiatrist's office and the bleak prognosis that my child might never speak again. I found myself nodding along as Mr. Kennedy spoke about the grim realities of profound autism. Can you explain what this divide is about between, say, a community that you represent and this parent's community of children who she describes as profoundly autistic?

And yet, I was transported back to the psychiatrist's office and the bleak prognosis that my child might never speak again. I found myself nodding along as Mr. Kennedy spoke about the grim realities of profound autism. Can you explain what this divide is about between, say, a community that you represent and this parent's community of children who she describes as profoundly autistic?

Yeah. First off, I should say, and I want to be as careful as I can with this. Sorry, I don't want to make too many people mad. It's important to remember that a lot of parents of high support needs autistic kids disagree with Emily and a lot of people agree with her. In fact, Emily and I were DMing before that article came out.

Yeah. First off, I should say, and I want to be as careful as I can with this. Sorry, I don't want to make too many people mad. It's important to remember that a lot of parents of high support needs autistic kids disagree with Emily and a lot of people agree with her. In fact, Emily and I were DMing before that article came out.

Yeah. First off, I should say, and I want to be as careful as I can with this. Sorry, I don't want to make too many people mad. It's important to remember that a lot of parents of high support needs autistic kids disagree with Emily and a lot of people agree with her. In fact, Emily and I were DMing before that article came out.

And, you know, the thing that I would say is that so that term profound autism, that is an ongoing debate that's going on right now because the Lancet in 2021, 2022 put out a commission arguing that there needed to be a separate label called profound autism for those kind of, as I mentioned, level three autistic people or what we would call high support needs.